Might be worth mentioning gumshoe[0] as well, which is fantastic. I use it to capture bindings without thinking about it (using the automatic plugin for develop

Might be worth mentioning gumshoe[0] as well, which is fantastic. I use it to capture bindings without thinking about it (using the automatic plugin for development mode - no overhead for production!). Often times I run a long-ish/effectful function (web request, network request, etc.) and wonder what the value was somewhere in the function, but unfortunately I didn't have the foresight to do a (def -my-value value) ahead of time. With gumshoe, it's all automatically captured, so I can pop the values into my repl and play with them to understand what happened. A few examples: user> (deft add-ten [num] (+ num 10)) #'user/add-ten user> (add-ten 2) 12 user> -add-ten-num 2* user> (deft destructure-example [{:keys [a b] :as args}] a) #'user/destructure-example user> -destructure-example-a 1 user> -destructure-example-b nil user> -destructure-example-args {:a 1, :c 2} Anyway, it's quite surprising how often this saves my bacon. And it pairs very nicely with cider indeed! [0] https://github.com/datodev/gumshoe#gumshoe https://github.com/datodev/gumshoe#gumshoe